Idaho Lottery raffle made a millionaire tonight

Comment #13

OldSchoolPa — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:47:12 GMT

My lotto playing life is completely separate from my financial advice life; the two are not intertwined. So although I would rather have any money I wager on the lottery give me the potential for the biggest bang/return on said wager, I tend to recommend a slightly more conservative investing strategies/portfolios for my clients based on their time horizon and risk tolerance profile (i.e. if their profile indicates that they fit an aggressive growth profile, I might recommend a growth portfolio

Comment #12

WTanner — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:33:07 GMT

Playing IDaho Lotto (Powerball, Hotlotto, Wildcard) for several years now. But never in the Raffle, although the lady at the counter always asks Raffle ticket? maybe next year I'll buy won.LOL

Comment #11

justxploring — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:21:12 GMT

Wouldn't it be great if one of the winners was an LP member? Good luck to our Idaho friends

Comment #10

Todd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:07:57 GMT

I personally love the raffles every year. I wish we had the equivalent of El Gordo in the USA, but I'll take the closest thing to it.

Comment #9

KY Floyd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:43:25 GMT

Did you pay any attention to the odds? For the $20 you'd rather spend on MM, you could get 2 tickets for the raffle. With MM you'd have a 1 in 195,235 chance of winning $250,000 vs a 1 in 125,000 chance of winning a full million. With MM you'd have a 1 in 34,453 chance of winning $10,000 vs a 1 in 31,250 chance of winning $15,000. With MM you'd have about a 1 in 350 chance of winning $150 vs a 1 in 250 chance of winning $300. For all of those prizes the raffle ofered a better chance of winning b... [ More ]

Comment #8

BaristaExpress — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:21:35 GMT

Yeah Delaware is the most chicken**it of them all in offering only 250,000.00 dollars for 10 bucks for it's raffle! I don't like the fact that Delaware is only going to give the one top prize of 250K from all the money it's going to collect! The first state is the most money grubbing state I have seen in the raffle and lottery game industry out there! I don't play raffles in any state period

Comment #7

Todd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:39:07 GMT

I'd agree, especially with a raffle. There is no raffle number better than any other, because it is a single-number drawing, sort of like the Mega Ball being drawn in Mega Millions. They don't draw each of the digits separately.

I'd actually say that your number was good because it is in the middle part of the range, and not at one of the extremes.

Comment #6

MaddMike51 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:35:29 GMT

You can never tell if a number is good or bad before the drawing.You just have to wait and see if your number is drawn.Your time will come.Just keep playing and think positive.

Comment #5

ThatScaryChick — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:51:59 GMT

Thanks MaddMike51. It would have been nice to win something but I didn't. I only bought one ticket this time and it was kind of a funky number. It was 111114. When I saw that I was like those numbers are never going to be drawn and I was right. lol.

Comment #4

Todd — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:25:24 GMT

It's actually a very good raffle, considering that tckets are only $10 and the population (player base) is small. They could hae done it like Delaware, and only offered $250,000 as the top prize, but instead they did it right and made the top prize $1M.

Idaho doesn't have nearly the resources of a big state like Pennsylvania, yet they had an extremely successful raffle, selling out all the tickets before the drawing. Nicely done.

Comment #3

BaristaExpress — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:40:33 GMT

Heck at least Idaho is going pay all prizes as one lump sum, even the Million Dollars! Now that's the way it should be done!

Not like NJ, those A**holes are going to rip the people off by paying the top 3 prizes as annuities!

The (3) $2,000,000 Annuity prize will be paid in 20 annual gross installments of $100,000 each.

That's Absolutely Chicken**it if anything can be called that

Comment #2

MaddMike51 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:27:24 GMT

Isn't That Scary Chick from Idaho It would be nice if she won the million dollars

Comment #1

OldSchoolPa — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:19:52 GMT

Wow this was one stinker of a raffle...one $1M top prize, four $15,000 second prizes! That was one heck of a big gulf between first and second! Whatever happened to the $100,000 second prize? I have only played raffles on 3 occasions (twice in IL and once in MI). All 3 were non winners. So given that, I have decided I would rather throw $20 bucks to an online jackpot game like PB or MM or a big lotto jackpot than a one shot chance raffle. And I definitely wouldn't play one that only offered $15,... [ More ]

Idaho Lottery raffle made a millionaire tonight

Lottery Post — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:12:32 GMT

Idaho Lottery conducts first USA holiday raffle drawing of 2008

The Idaho Lottery conducted its $1,000,000 Raffle drawing Tuesday evening, and created one instant millionaire.

The winning numbers are available Lottery Post's Idaho Lottery Results page (www.lotterypost.com/results/id).

In addition to the $1 million top prize, there will be four winners of $15,000, 500 winners of $300, and 150 winners of $100. All prizes are lump-sum cash payments.

A total of 250,000 tickets were avail... [ More ]